The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 1, 1910 Page: 1 of 8
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At 7:15 a. m. on Wednesday,
November 30th. the beautiful cere,
mony of the Episcopal church, per-
formed by Rev. Wiggins, of Dallas,
united in the holy bonds of wedlock
Mite Lou Cunningham, of our, little
city, and Mr. Noel Cropp, of Brown-
wood, Texas, at the home of the
bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T.
Cunningham, on North Oak Street-
The social honors which have
■ proceeded this event speak for the
popularly of the bride, but# do not
tell all ofBtf sweet winsomeness of
disposition aqd sunniness of nature,
nor how she will be missed from
her home and by her many friends
She never looked prettier than in
her becoming going away suit of
dark blue cloth. She carried a
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handsome boquet of carnations and
form.
The groom is a brother of our
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We are acknowledged leaders in Style for Ladies' Headgi
Our Hats are worn by the best dressed women all over the county.
We have had a splendid season, but want to Clean Up every Hat in
the house. _ Our loss isjyour gain. We congratulate the late buyer as
we will simplv slaughter all Previous Prices.
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The Big Bargain Sale on Dry Goods
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Clothings, Etc., Still continues and is getting better all the time.
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if you have not visited this Store, it will pay you well to see us before
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dusty
norther
swept our little city juSt before
8unday School time iuterfferred
with the attendance that day.
Still, there were present at
Bible School at Chriatian^Church
fifty eight, at the Presbyterian
eighty four, at the Baptist one
hundred and forty-eight, at the
Methodist one hundred and for-
tv six. -HU
Rev. Pearce iiad for his morn
ing subject “The Front Rank
Bible School Standard.” He
strove ho inspire his people to
greater effort sor as to raise their
standard to an ideal standard
In the evening he preached the
third'of his series of sermons on
early Bible History. It was es
pecially good. To illustrate
these he uses an excellent out-
. anA Une wMohJ»
-townswoman, U» WMMlVer, and 0^ar,# Tlieir Endeavor waa also
is noted for his gentlemanly (^hal-
ides and business worth;
^ The bride came in on the arm of
her father, and her parents stood
with the couple. /
The comfortable house full of
friends witnessed- the ceremony
and a large number of presents at-
tested thp length xif thnir fwnnriwhtp
list. These presents included ex-
quisite cut glass, silver, china, linen
and daintiest of fancy work.
The couple left on^the early morn-
ing train for Dallus, amid a shower
of rice, and showers of good wishes
and congratulations, in the last of
which the Leader heartily joina —
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interesting.' It waa led by Miss
Zula Pearce, subject, “Heroes of
the Bible—My Favorite Mission-
ary Hero, and Why?"
Rev. Rouse preached a splen-
did sermon in the morning from
“There Were Added Tb 'The
Church Daily Such an Ware Bn
Notice.
; ' The stock-holdhrt of the Beckham
National Bank will hold theUnnual
meeting Tuesday, JanuaryUlipll,
between the hours of 9 a. Vi \iAd 4
n. m. for the purpose of electing 4
Aboard of Directors and; stidaother
business proper to come before said
^ meeting. • S R Crawoiio, -
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Ing Saved.” In the evening his
congregation was directed to the
beautiful subject of “Mercy.”
The B. Y. P. U. led by Mr. Ho
iper Mayes, was very good. '
ltev. McMurry was absent
from town. In the evening the
program, for the song service,
published last week Vvas given,
With several changes on account
lb9en“ tr°” r 1i I h-adeedndedmrVe ^SSE
Ths aadrMri by HMer MoPhail jolnt entertainment next Friday
was exceptionally interesting j nigty, December 11. The ad in is
and helpful. Some precious, sion fee to this entertainment is
chapters from Psalms were read Come out^. and hear
Intakes three or more elders be
sides a full choir to make up for
the abeence of the pastor. The
Endeavor was well attended and
interesting. It was led by Miss
Carrie Finlev. Several of the
Eliagville Endeavorers were wel
oome visitors., "•
. Rev. Singleton gave his con-
gregation some echoes from Con-
ference. He tolcTXhem of the
many good points about Method
ism as s forta * of church’ policy
and economy, and made a plea
for their loyalty to their denom
i nation and a persohal plea for a
more consecrated life* from every
member, ^n the evening he be
gan a series bfjMrmons on the
Parables to be given every Sun-
day evening. The Epworth
League had a good attendance
and interesting meeting with klr.
TaUalerroas leader "“The sub
ject Was *,Come, Our Lord.”
Is Nensrsf Miss Canningham
On Friday afternoon dt*3 o,clock,
NcW 25th, "the pretty reception
rooriis of Mts. Widmayer’s hsroe
were thrown open to a merry party
of maids and matrons when she and
Mrs. Evans Mabry entertained with
a linen shower in honor of the bride-
to-be, Miss Lou Cunningham.
The guests on entering were \ask-
ed to write in the artistic little book,
decorated in water colors with a
bride and groom.
When all had assembled^ tten-
tion was called to strings of hearts
across the room, and pvery one was
to try to secure as many as possi-
ble of , the red ones. In this effort,
Mrs. McCarroll proved most success-
ful. and was awarded a pair of hand girl. Martha May Morris, who strew
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Pretty little Kathryn Morris pass-
ed the favors which Were bride's
roses with a heart suspended from
each one.
The. guests adjourned again to
the parlors where a lively game of
"Who Am IT” was enjoyed. Of
course the honoreie had to think
scriptions given of him, Then, such
a sweet picture was enacted by
little Lillian Widmeyer arrayed as a
tiny bride was driven in by two
little white butterflies. Misses Adele
Harrell and Helen Widmeyer. The
bride was seated upon a mass of
dainty white packages and was pro-
ceeded by the dear little flower
: fattiest and Cleanest
A visitor to Graham a fewv___
days ago and a man who has
traveled a great deal made the
remark that "Graham ia the
cleanest and prettiest • town I
ever saw in mj life.” . Wp ^
When we come to think of it
embroidered towels.
Then, letters on the walls received
ed flowers in her pathway and all
about the seat occupied by Miss
were
The discussion led along the line to solve the puzzle: "Whq lovee Lou
of being prepared at all times
for the promised event.
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The Firemen’k Band gave a
concert in connection >ith the
moviog plAturfl Mhnwt n» thn fW
pheum Theatre last Tuesday
night to a fair sized audience.
The band gave their concert on
the stage before the show start-
ed and at £he close of the la$$
selection the ^urtain was drop-
ped and Jtbo-Amoving pictures
w^re 'tlirown on the canvas
while the band played " several
marches. It seemed to please
people so well that Mr.
Dowdle, the manager of thoband,
attention. The puzzle was to form Cunningham. As the bundles
them into a question containing relieved of {heir snowy ribbons and
four words. Mrs. Rose Wak the first [coverings by the fair hands of Miss
Lbu, many lovely souvenirs were re-
vealed. There were towels of the
finest fabric and hand worked,
handkerchiefs of filmest linen and
lace, and scarfs and lunch cloths of
drawn work. The honoree made a
graceful speech of thanks ancT ap*
prfeciation. J
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very high compliment and yet it
is one^that we really think the
pretty plaoe. In point of civic
attractiveness and civic cleannees
there are few if any towns that
can compare with it,
There are % idw oid time shacks
around the public squares that
could be dispensed with andinp
prove appearadee of things, but
most of our buildings are sub-
stantial and tralttr Gar sit-
best?" Of course every one could
answer the question at once She
was awarded an interesting picture
where Cupid was playing his part-
Both of these favors and guest book
were'presented to the honoree. ,_
. A most tempting buffet luncheon
was then served. Seated at^The
table, tjie four ladies who served
were‘ dressed two in lilac, two in
< Just then everyone discovered
that the shades of night had begun
_ , to fall, go bade farewell to the gra-
white. These were Miss Cunning- cious hostessess with many express-
ham and her cousin, Miss Handy, *
and Mesdames Vaughan and A. A.
Morrison. They were assisted by
Mesdames R. G. Graham, Harrell
and Miss Kidwell. .
The first course was perfection
salad with pefriertosandwiches and
olives; the second was the favorite
uation for a town cannot be sur- ?
passed and our citizenship has ;N
few equals in point of morality /
and general integrity.1 s
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Messrs W.,C. and W. J. Pugb,
kprosperous farmer* of Palo Pinto
county, were buying supplies
fche first of the week in tht«
M. 8. Hahdy, of Waco, a
brother of Mra. J. T. Canning-
ions of the verjj delightfui- way in
which the hours ha}; b^err spent
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A. L Owen, one of the few re-
by Ejde^ Hallam. ‘ ETder McCar-
TOll had charge of the services,
the band and see a fine-moving
picture show. Don t forget!. At
the Orpheum Theatre, Friday
ncluding the maisoal numbers, night, December 11.
inaining who have read the Lead
er from its first iksue un to the
present time, handed us hik
angel food and Wane mange in w** .?,°rn'
rlnh with whin~wi '"f• "hloh ma.lte. ^is thlrtJ,
fifth time to be moved up on our
subscription list. We hope that
he may read the paper another
thiirty-flve years and that we
may be here to give him credit
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club colors, wjth whipped cream,
with fruit nuts apd (he ever re-
freshing grape frappe. The table
was very attuactive with cut flow-
ers The center was a mirror boc-
dered with rosea
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ham and a former citizen of Gra-
ham, attended tbe Cropp Cun-
ningham wedding here yesterday
morning. ? . ^T,
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8. A. Fates, one of the leading
farmers of the Jean Community*
was trading in town yesterday^
and having some _maahinery
made at our machine and irog*
foundry plant. Mr. Cates
agreeably surprised at the b
class of work our new plant
throwing out an^Yemarked-th
there was no need now of sepdi
machine woric of any desbri
out of the country. Yes, ere
all proud of our machine
iron foundry. '
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Bowron, Frank H. The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 1, 1910, newspaper, December 1, 1910; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth849927/m1/1/: accessed May 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Library of Graham.